These guidelines are an important contribution towards ensuring equal treatment and promoting a culture based on treating others with respect, where each and every individual is valued and ignoring discrimination is not tolerated. They ensure that cases of discrimination, harassment and sexual harassment are dealt with transparently at FAU and UKER, provide information on the rights and obligations of all parties, provide details of which initial points of contact and counselling services are available for those affected and stipulate a structured procedure for submitting official complaints.
They also set out a catalogue of preventative measures and sanctions. A diagram illustrates the procedure for filing complaints set out in the guidelines. Here you can find our leaflet. All further information on the complaints procedure can be found here.
The Office of Equality and Diversity is one of the points of contact and counselling services at FAU according to section 6 of the guidelines. It provides confidential initial and referral advice for first of all female students and academic staff affected by sexual harrassment and discrimination.
Further points of contact and counselling at FAU can be found in the next section. In the initial meeting, the points of contact and counselling services at FAU discuss the issue with the person affected by discrimination, harassment or sexual harassment, explore the extent to which support is required, and they can advise individuals how to pursue the matter further.
They offer information about preventative measures and appropriate actions, explain the arbitration procedure see Section 6 para 5 of the guidelines and the official complaints procedure see Section 7 of the guidelines. If necessary, they can refer those seeking advice to other suitable, specialist internal or external advisory and support services or arrange an appointment for them. Further information initial and referral advice see German only : Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes : Leitfaden.
